If anyone has been trying to travel through Potsdam Hauptbahnhof today they would have found there was an alternative bus service.
The reason is because a World War II flying bomb had been discovered near the main train station. The centre of Potsdam was evacuated, and traffic cut off for five hours whilst the bomb was successfully diffused.
Link to news story from AFP via Google News.
Travelling back from the train station today at 16:00, everything was back to normal. It'a kind of scary, but I guess inevitable, that these dangerous memorials from WWII still keep turning up. Makes me wary when putting a spade to my garden (that's my excuse for inactivity gardening-wise anyway )
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American WWII flying bomb found in Potsdam
City center evacuated, bomb now defused
am 14. April 1945 bei der alliierten Operation mit dem Codenamen "Crayfish" (Flusskrebs) Angriffsziel eines rund 50 Kilometer langen Schwarms von mehr als 700 Bombern, die von London aus gestartet waren. Bei dem nur halbstündigen Angriff wurden mehr als 1750 Tonnen Bomben abgeworfen, die die Altstadt weitgehend in Schutt und Asche legten. Rund 1600 Menschen starben.
Wow what a raid 50 Kilometer long swarms of over 700 Bombers, they dropped 1750 Tonnes of bombs and turned the city to ashes in one night... 1600 people died.. very sad... thats the reason they find so much munitions especially bombs around Berlin and Potsdam..
Many people make comments about Germany's major cities architecture, how new all the buildings are, etc. Then they realize how much these places had the sh*t bombed out of them. Over 100,000 civilians died through these bombings.
A "Fliegerbombe" is not a Flying bomb.
A flying bomb is the name given to the V1's launched towards the UK.
A Fliegerbombe is an aircraft bomb - ie dropped from a plane and not powered.
Everytime they dig foundations for a new building here you see the Bomb disposal teams going over the ground first.
A bulldozer driver got killed by an old bomb not so long ago, things are all over the place.
A flying bomb is the name given to the V1's launched towards the UK.
A Fliegerbombe is an aircraft bomb - ie dropped from a plane and not powered.
Everytime they dig foundations for a new building here you see the Bomb disposal teams going over the ground first.
A bulldozer driver got killed by an old bomb not so long ago, things are all over the place.
A "Fliegerbombe" is not a Flying bomb. A flying bomb is the name given to the V1's launched towards the UK ...
Some 10,000 of the things were launched towards England between 13 June '44 (first to hit) and 29 March '45 (the last to hit), not to mention the additional 1,400 or so V2s launched towards London, the last of which hit on 27 March '45. Makes all the criticism of the RAF and USAAF for dropping bombs on German civilians when the war already won look a bit silly.
The reason is because a World War II flying bomb had been discovered near the main train station.
Surely, it can't still be flying after all this time...
the reason they find so much munitions especially bombs around Berlin and Potsdam..
It happened in every German city. In many towns and cities the percentage of destruction was higher than in Berlin.They find duds every day in Germany.
Lest we forget.
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